Comment Re:Maybe they could protect postmen against real d (Score 1) 22
I imagine a world where people do not need "personal protection" in public space. Or any space.
John Lennon would be proud
Comment a landslide, a windfall, we're all rich (Score 1) 23
oh wait that's a whopping 73 bucks each. Guess I should cancel my tickets to Tahiti :(
Comment oh great (Score 1) 145
now we have to worry about a bunch of rich coke snortin zombies who can now live 20% longer.
Comment Re:It's right there in the name (Score 1) 53
since most politicians start out as lawyers we should first start with them. Then bankers, then wall street investment brokers and THEN politicians as there aren't "that many" politicians so it would be a pretty tiny neutron star otherwise.
Comment Re:Comcast is against it? Then do it!! (Score 1) 79
That's black and white thinning: not all for profit corporations are equally bad.
examples of good ones? Because I can't think of a one corporation that is not evil in some way or another.
Comment Re:So after reading it... (Score 0) 153
Are you fucking kidding me? You don't understand the Apple hate? These assholes have to publish instructions on how to store their fucking credit card........ Apparently those nearly indestructible cards, already in existence, that have been the staple of the credit card industry for the last 40 years are passe.
Instructions for a fucking credit card........ Jesus Harold Christ.... Who the hell stains their credit card? But apparently Apple chose the shittiest possible material to make a card out of since you can actually stain a fucking Apple credit card... Holy fuck sticks....
I'm not sure whom I hate more.. Apple or you for a level of too-stupid-to-breathe that boggles the mind.
man I wish i had some mod points today as this needs modded up big time.
Comment a world without nanners (Score 1) 195
is not a world I want to live in :(
Comment 6.6 Million Lose CBS Channels (Score 1) 143
And in the end nothing really matters. And nothing of value is lost.
toss up a cheap antenna and watch it for free as CBS is still a free OTA broadcaster.
toss up a cheap antenna and watch it for free as CBS is still a free OTA broadcaster.
Comment don't they ever learn? (Score 1) 212
physicist Leah Broussard is trying to open a portal to a parallel universe
this never ends well.
this never ends well.
Comment Re:Was his illicit gains confiscated? (Score 1) 85
Safely invested you are only likely to pull a passive income of 40,000 a year from 800,000 cash.
That is enough for a poverty-line existence in most of America, and if you hit any costly medical problems that insurance doesn't fully cover, you are screwed. Also, you can't afford most assisted living with that level of income.
If you want to retire on that kind of money, the best thing you can do is move out of America to a cheaper country.
Not sure where you live, but you do know the "average" wage for a teacher or even the popo is 30k a year to start. the poverty level for a household of four is an annual income of $25,750 not 40k a year.
Sure you would almost be living on the streets in San Fran, but in Port Byron Ill you can buy a decent house for that.
Here is south Texas the cost of living is very low and you could live quite well on 40k. Could you live like a king? No but you can do far worse than 40k a year.
Comment Re:A travesty? (Score 2) 161
A long as the books are still available. Sometimes books become unpopular, or are deemed offensive and it can be difficult to find copies.
Similar with movies. Try to find a legal copy of "pass the ammo" anywhere. It was pulled because it offended certain religious groups.
I seem to remember this place years ago. It was this building with all these things called books in it. If only I could remember the name....
Comment Re:Who asked for this? (Score 1) 118
oh I don't know. Part of me remembers fondly sitting with my mates on the ship spending weeks programming a new game from the C64 magazine and then fo it to not work or crash or whatever just to toss it out and start anew when the new mag was delivered. Normally went a lot like this. We get the mag. We would take turns programming [copying the code from the mag] and that would take us about 2 to 3 weeks [we had nothing much else to do on the boat] and then spent the next weeks figuring out why the code would not run and more times than not never get it to work. New Mag then rinse and repeat.
I think out of the 7 or 8 tries we actually got 2 or 3 working lol. Now keep in mind this was right after the c64 was released [1982/83] and there was no internet or anyone to ask for help lol. So there were a LOT of wasted hours on the thing. But fun and frustrating hours. The part I remember HATING was when the damn cassette would shit midway lol.
I think out of the 7 or 8 tries we actually got 2 or 3 working lol. Now keep in mind this was right after the c64 was released [1982/83] and there was no internet or anyone to ask for help lol. So there were a LOT of wasted hours on the thing. But fun and frustrating hours. The part I remember HATING was when the damn cassette would shit midway lol.
Comment I say shoot for the lower intestine (Score 1) 169
Huawei workers have teamed with members of various organs of the People's Liberation Army.
Maybe the spleen?
Comment Re:rational self-interest (Score 1) 132
But this is a prisoner's dilemma. Your best interest is actually to live in a world where people return lost items, except you who just steals everything and gets away with it.
The two countervailing forces I can see are:
1. Morality / altruistic feelings. 2. A notion that the closest the world can practically get is a world where everybody including you return lost items.
#2 takes some justification. It's not clear how you returning a wallet to somebody makes it more likely that somebody will return a wallet to you. Unless you brag about it endlessly or something.
Karma tends to be believed in by many. The old sayings "What goes around comes around", "You reap what you sow", and "Treat others as you would have them treat you" comes to mind and I like to think I run each through my brain before picking up the wallet, grabbing the cash out of it and THEN returning/drop off at the cop shop in hopes it gets returned to the owner.
Comment douche bags (Score 1) 132
What I get out of this is 25-49% of the people all over the world are douche bags [the ones who don't return/report] which is a lot LESS then I have observed which is pretty much most people are douche bags if given the chance.
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